Record sales don't matter when the people who bought the records are dead and gone.

Chuck Klosterman
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Record sales don't matter when the people who bought the records are dead and gone. The music, the books, the art, the television shows, they're all made by one person or a group of people. A record company only cares about what's in front of them at that particular moment in time. Record sales are just one of many potential sources for income.

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